Press Release - November 19, 2008

Chinese

AT&T Announces First Super Internet Data Centre in Asia

SINGAPORE, November 19, 2008 — AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today
announced it is opening the first super Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Asia,
located in Singapore. The super IDC, an expansion of AT&Ts existing
facilities, will act as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T
network to deliver AT&T Synaptic HostingSM, its next-generation
utility computing services.

The opening of the super IDC in Asia is part of AT&T’s US$1 billion
planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data centre
hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centres in AT&T’s global Internet
Protocol (IP) network. Other super IDCs are located in Piscataway, New Jersey;
San Diego, California; Annapolis, Maryland and Amsterdam in the Netherlands,
which will form the regional hubs in the US and Europe.

“AT&T continues to invest in growing its business to support customers
and to meet the demands of multinational corporations for next-generation
services and solutions,” said Bernard Yee, vice president, AT&T Asia
Pacific. “To help customers in this challenging economic environment, the first
super IDC in Asia, combined with our Synaptic Hosting platform, will offer them
much greater flexibility to scale their information technology resources up or
down to meet their business requirements. The super IDC will enable us to offer
information technology and infrastructure service as turn-key managed
infrastructure solutions on demand.”

“In addition, AT&T is going to offer managed application services within
the sectors of enterprise resource planning software, eCommerce, WEB services,
messaging and unified communications services to enhance our value proposition
and managed services proposition for our customers in Asia and globally. Our
goal is to allow them to focus on running their businesses while achieving
greater flexibility, improved performance and further cost-savings,” Mr. Yee
said.

The AT&T IDCs allow AT&T to deliver consistent, highly scalable,
enterprise-class Information Technology (IT) services around the globe. In
addition to the hosting services available in all other centres, the super IDC
supports large-scale computing and application infrastructure on demand that
can be combined with other AT&T hosting services, such as managed
networking, virtualized security, application acceleration and storage.
Companies can deliver end-user applications infrastructure whenever and
wherever they are needed on a pay-for-use model. The new services can be
accessed from anywhere in the world and combines technology acquired by
AT&T from application service provider USinternetworking.

AT&T Synaptic Hosting platformSM is a next-generation utility
computing platform delivering a virtual hosting solution with features that
allow businesses to scale computing resources up or down as needed, pay only
for the capacity they use and manage applications in the AT&T network
cloud. The AT&T Synaptic HostingSM service comes with designated
account support, backed by a single end-to-end, service-level agreement that is
unique within the industry. The utility computing features are an ideal
solution for companies with changing business needs and IT demands such as
seasonal, temporary, unpredictable, or where end-user IT usage spikes are a
given.

About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its
subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of
AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their
offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications
services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and
voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory
publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and
YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators
in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen
integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. In
2008, AT&T again ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s World’s Most Admired
Telecommunications Company list and No. 1 on America’s Most Admired
Telecommunications Company list. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and
the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is
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